Pseudochazara mamurra

Buff Asian grayling
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Pseudochazara
Species:
P. mamurra
Binomial name
Pseudochazara mamurra
Synonyms
  • Satyrus mamurra Herrich-Schäffer, [1846]
  • Pseudochazara amymone Brown, 1976

Pseudochazara mamurra, the buff Asian grayling, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.[1] It is confined to Albania, Greece, and Turkey. The habitat consists of slopes in steep river valleys.

It is a very variable species.

Flight period

The species is univoltine and is on wing from June to August.

Food plants

Larvae feed on grasses.

Subspecies

  • Pseudochazara mamurra mamurra (Turkey)
  • Pseudochazara mamurra amymone Brown, 1976 - Brown's grayling (Greece and Albania)
  • Pseudochazara mamurra birgit Gross, 1978 (Turkey)

Pseudochazara mamurra amymone is alternatively treated as a full species.

  • Pseudochazara mamurra amymone
    Pseudochazara mamurra amymone
  • Pseudochazara mamurra amymone upperside and underside
    Pseudochazara mamurra amymone upperside and underside
  • Pseudochazara mamurra amymone variation
    Pseudochazara mamurra amymone variation
  • Pseudochazara mamurra amymone mating
    Pseudochazara mamurra amymone mating
  • Pseudochazara mamurra amymone caught by a crab spider
    Pseudochazara mamurra amymone caught by a crab spider

References

  1. ^ "Pseudochazara de Lesse, 1951" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms